Earlier this winter, Oregon regulators sealed a deal to shut down the coal-fired power plant in Boardman by 2020. Now the one other large coal-fired power plant in the Northwest is in the political cross hairs....posted using frpa

It would be interesting to know where the hell they think that lost capacity will come from. Certainly not dams since they have long been on a campaign to get rid of them. Pretty soon we’ll not only have to build a mexican border fence but also fences around states like Oregon, California and cities like Detroit to keep the third world democrats from polluting the rest of the country.

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posted on 02/16/2011 12:52:57 PM PST
by RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)

Al Gore has spent years and much money campaigning and fundraising for Green candidates in western states. The strategy was to create a fossil-fuel-free region with its own cap-and-trade system to serve as a model for a mandated national scheme. Gore and his partner, former Goldman Sachs investment expert David Blood, have purchased carbon credit paper from around the world through their Generation Investment Management fund. Investors include the Church of England to the tune of $250 million. Once Congress enacted Cap-and-Trade Gore and Blood would have a captive market in the U.S. industrial sector to sell their credits. The value of these credits would inflate substantially once the president signed the new law. Shutting down coal-fired generators wasn't really in Gore's equation because carbon-emitting industry would be his market.

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posted on 02/16/2011 12:56:50 PM PST
by Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)

Oregon regulators sealed a deal to shut down the coal-fired power plant in Boardman by 2020. Now the one other large coal-fired power plant in the Northwest is in the political cross hairs

At what point does the public push back?

We are taking more generation out of service than we are placing into service.....

.....At the same time, the POTUS is pushing electric cars while making petroleum too expensive.

As with all systems, something has to give in the energy equation for it to balance out. I don't think too many people are going to accept living like peasants in the 17th century.

We will see a new meaning for the phrase "Blood for Oil" in the not too distant future IMHO. And I don't mean war in the middle east. There will be riots over energy. Coal and oil will be back in favor when this is all said and done. Nuclear too, but it will take longer to increase capacity.

If the damn American and Liberty hating leftist enviro wackos would get out of the way, we could ramp up the Nuclear power in a year.

We had 110 units (each power reactor at each facility) up until 40 years ago, then the enviro wacko traitorous leftist communist democrats used the court systems and the epa to stop power production.

They need to be shot, and we need to start building power.

We could build safe power plants from scratch to finish within a year, if the Unions, Courts and other leftists could be put into their place. We probably could actually do it quicker, but we need to realize the national emergency.

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posted on 02/16/2011 4:52:20 PM PST
by FreeAtlanta
(Obama and the left are making a mockery of our country.)

It would be interesting to know where the hell they think that lost capacity will come from.

Have you not read Atlas Shrugged? When the shortages begin to hit, the government will start a propaganda campaign against the greedy industrialists who are hoarding all the electricity. Rationing will begin, and the capitalists will be denied the opportunity to (legally) purchase power to keep their businesses up and running.

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posted on 02/16/2011 5:34:56 PM PST
by Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))

PS I didnt bother reading the article because Im rushing to get out the door for work, so if I missed anything just ping me to the important stuff, and thanks in advance. Not you Oregon.

Well, I'm in Oregon. This article that you didn't read was about a coal plant in WASHINGTON being DEBATED in OLYMPIA. Next time you don't read the article, please try to not tell an entire state not to reply to you, wherever it is you're from. You won't look so ignorant next time, FRiend.

Oops, bad sentence structure, or something like that. Didn’t mean Oregonian’s, was referring to the STATE itself, as an entity that would shut down a power plant for dubious reasons, and immoral porpoises. AND the same STATE that years ago would not let people pump their own gasoline, that Oregon.

...and now we find out it’s Washington all along. Hey I was rushed, no pun intended. Enough of the excuses.

I read Atlas Shrugged years ago and if the idiots today manage to kill off ready availability of power to fuel their blogs, brew their latte and enable their texting then I think the useful idiots who blindly follow the idiots will be thinking more along the line of moving against their democrat buddies. There is a larger conservative population in Oregon than a lot of people believe. I wonder if the democrat party will be supporting the revolution in the streets that their dictatorial policies will bring about in the same way that they support the MB in Egypt.

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posted on 02/17/2011 6:31:48 AM PST
by RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)

“I don’t think too many people are going to accept living like peasants in the 17th century.”

You would be surprised. There are millions of thoroughly brainwashed people in this country. They will do absolutely everything that the elite tell them to do, even sacrifice themselves for the “greater good” without thinking so much as a single thought. How else can we explain the continued existence of Obama supporters?

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posted on 02/19/2011 12:16:16 PM PST
by Soothesayer
(smallpox is not a person)

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